Liberatic archives: Materials collected by B.S. Johnson as well as Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik

Katarzyna Biela

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A b s t r a k t

The article summarizes four years of my research conducted in the archives of liberatic avant-garde authors: the post-war British writer B.S. Johnson and the Polish artists Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik. Tracking the history of their collections, I pay attention to their multimodal character, corresponding to the authors’ unconventional works. I illustrate how Johnson, Fajfer and Bazarnik organise their materials, so as to examine similarities and differences between their ways of handling avant-garde collections.